和他一同埋葬……一举一动有新生的样式。（罗六4）
一个人要经历完全的成圣，不能不先经过“白色的葬礼”——旧生命的埋葬。若没有这死的转捩点，成圣只不过是幻影。必须有一次“白色的丧礼”，死后只有一次复活——复活在耶稣基督的生命里头。什么都不能摇动这生命，这是与神合一的生命；而且只有一个目的，就是为他作见证。
你真的来到生命的尽头了吗？在情绪上你固然时常会来到，但是否真真正正经历这些生命尽头的日子？你不可能兴兴奋奋地死去或参加自己的葬礼。死的意思是你停止存在。你必须与神对齐，停止像往日那样竭力挣扎、拼命奋斗。我们往往避开坟场，始终不肯死去。成圣不是透过竭力发生，乃是透过”顺服至死”，死亡是持续地“受浸归入他的死”。
你是否有过“白色的葬礼”？还是在虔诚地欺骗自己的灵魂？你生命中是否有一个时刻你已标明是你的“末日”？你生命中有没有一个地方让你想起当日所受的管教，心中万分感激地宣告说：“是的，就在那时，在那‘白色丧礼’中，我与神立了约”？
‘’神的旨意就是要你们成为圣洁“（帖前4:3）。当你一旦觉察到这是神的旨意，就十分自然地进到成圣的过程里。你愿意现在就经历那“白色的丧礼”吗？你能否愿意向神说，这一天是你在地上的最后一天？这愿意的时刻是在于你。
祈祷◆“非圣洁没有人能见主。”主啊，感谢你，赐下这句话。倘若你不是圣洁的，那会是何等可怕！有些时候，我们是多么容易坠入一个较松散、较卑贱的生活中了；感谢你藉着圣灵的叹息提醒我——我何其渴望它们能带领我与你面对面。宽恕我的迟缓，我需要那么久，才醒悟某些事情。
January 15: Do You Walk In White?
We were buried with Him . . . that just as Christ was raised from the dead . . . even so we also should walk in newness of life —Romans 6:4
No one experiences complete sanctification without going through a “white funeral”— the burial of the old life. If there has never been this crucial moment of change through death, sanctification will never be more than an elusive dream. There must be a “white funeral,” a death with only one resurrection— a resurrection into the life of Jesus Christ. Nothing can defeat a life like this. It has oneness with God for only one purpose— to be a witness for Him.
Have you really come to your last days? You have often come to them in your mind, but have you really experienced them? You cannot die or go to your funeral in a mood of excitement. Death means you stop being. You must agree with God and stop being the intensely striving kind of Christian you have been. We avoid the cemetery and continually refuse our own death. It will not happen by striving, but by yielding to death. It is dying— being “baptized into His death” (Romans 6:3).
Have you had your “white funeral,” or are you piously deceiving your own soul? Has there been a point in your life which you now mark as your last day? Is there a place in your life to which you go back in memory with humility and overwhelming gratitude, so that you can honestly proclaim, “Yes, it was then, at my ‘white funeral’, that I made an agreement with God.”
“This is the will of God, your sanctification . . .” (1 Thessalonians 4:3). Once you truly realize this is God’s will, you will enter into the process of sanctification as a natural response. Are you willing to experience that “white funeral” now? Will you agree with Him that this is your last day on earth? The moment of agreement depends on you.